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[[Category:Short stories]]
[[Category:Media by F.C. Vulkan]]

{{Story
|title={{PAGENAME}}
|image=Spacer.png
|author=[[F.C. Vulkan]]
|series=''[[Tales from the Boonta Eve Classic]]''
|length=4,328 words
|source=[https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tales_from_the_Boonta_Eve_Classic/works/60405031 AO3]
|date=November 8, 2024<ref name="Discord">Ken Palpatine (@shisstopus) on Discord ([https://discord.com/channels/1197017424042664016/1197161203798114364/1304321038061932556 link]), "https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Tales_from_the_Boonta_Eve_Classic Day 18, Tales is back by popular demand, A Long Time Ago: The Spacer's Tale by [F.C. Vulkan]."</ref>
|timelineplace=32 BBY
|preceding="[[The Scoop: Clegg Holdfast's Tale]]"
|following="[[Sense of Self: The Myth of Xelbree]]"
}}

'''"A Long Time Ago: The Spacer's Tale"''' is a short story written by F.C. Vulkan. It was first published on November 8, 2024<ref name="Discord /> on AO3 as the eighteenth story from ''[[Tales from the Boonta Eve Classic]]''. It is the tenth story in the printed release of the anthology.<ref name="Boonta">''Tales from the Boonta Eve Classic''</ref>

==Plot summary==
The titular unnamed spacer recounts a story from his youth to a group of children in [[Mos Espa]]. While working on a cargo vessel, he and the crew find themselves in a tough situation when the vessel is boarded by a band of Force sensitive pirates known as the [[Blazing Chain]]. The pirates have boarded the ship hoping to find "The Chamber" which, unknown to the crew, houses the [[Darth Nox's Holocron|holocron of Darth Nox]].<ref name="Spacer">"A Long Time Ago: The Spacer's Tale"</ref>

The spacer, his crewmates [[Kaden Draigo Skywalker]] (called "Draigo") and [[Johira]], and the droids [[T3-M9]] and [[LE-572]] escape from their prison cell and lead a daring assault against the pirates. Draigo is killed in the skirmish. When Johira and the spacer corner the gang's leader, [[Shri'lakku ObnKhan]], inside the chamber. Not wanting to pick a fight they are doomed to lose, the spacer decides to let ObnKhan and his crew leave with the holocron. However, once the pirates are off of the ship, the surviving crew members rally to their weapons stations and destroy the pirate fleet.<ref name="Spacer" />

Once the spacer is finished telling his story, a [[Anakin Skywalker|young boy]] asks if killing the pirates also justified the destruction of the holocron. The spacer is left dumbstruck.<ref name="Spacer" />

==Appearances==
===Characters===
*[[Anakin Skywalker]] <small>(Implied)</small>
*[[Darth Nox]] {{Mo}}
*[[Johira]]
*[[LE-572]]
*[[Kaden Draigo Skywalker]]
*[[Shri'lakku ObnKhan]]
*[[T3-M9]]
*[[Unidentified spacer]]

===Vessels===
*''[[Harklin V]]''

==Continuity==
This story claims that "Skywalker" is a "common name" in the [[Outer Rim]]<ref name="Spacer" />, which seems quite farfetched given the significance of the Skywalker family in extant ''Star Wars'' lore. This could just be a narrative flourish on the part of the spacer.

Similarly, despite claiming Skywalker to be a common name in the Outer Rim, the spacer explicitly points out Draigo's "Alderaan{{Sic}} accent."<ref name="Spacer" /> Alderaan is a part of the Core Worlds, not the Outer Rim, and thus places into question why Draigo would have an Outer Rim-flavored last name.

==References==
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